Half Rez Animations

As Half Rez got closer and closer, we realized we needed some animations to play between speakers and during cocktail and food breaks. So, after a few concept brainstorming sessions, we came up with these. The interstitial concepts centered around using the Half Rez pixel as a character in different comical situations with the Half Rez speech bubble logo.

Interstitials

For sound design, fast turn around and cartoonish whimsy were paramount. The office took turns doing our own vocalized sound effects for each animation. Then, each performance was blended together to make the final, silly sound design.

Interstitials “Sound Design”

These background animations were, more or less, glorified screen savers that played during breaks. Mostly eye candy to feature the logo and remind the guests where they were.

Background Animations

The scale of a project like this is just perfect for tackling in a day or two. Small, bite sized animations are fun to work on, fun to concept and quick to turn around. I wish all work was limited to ten seconds of animation.

I’ll try to stick to the comment rules and be nice by saying this, hopefully I will manage… While there’s been a lot of talk about creativity in this blog, your entries lately begin to lack the very same thing. I mean, even if the turnaround is short i’m sure you can avoid the usual random solids and the striped reflecting spheres. It’s kind of a hipster fashion, not creativity per se.
Sorry if i’ve been harsh but it’s just my opinion.

Hey Nick,
I’ve seen your tutorial on how to reduce color banding on backgrounds which was great for my exports, but the compression guidelines on Vimeo cause the banding to look horrendous on their site. These Half Rez spots have the same background look as mine but on Vimeo yours looks perfect…any suggestions?

Add a little noise/grain in the gradient background. This will cause the compression to take more steps in between the pixels and should help you get rid of the banding. I *think* Nick once explained this in a tutorial but I can’t remember which one that was (if any). Good luck!

hi nick , i will watching your tutorials a logn time ago and i upload some vidios on mi web page i hope u enjoy the sound creation and enjoyit thr videos too … i lve these shortcuts thay are really fun

Hi, I really like this animation. I was trying to do something similar with soft body with bumped up pressure, but I don’t know how to create that wiggle affect that your balloon has. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you!!!